School Swimming Lessons.

What a wonderful week we had last week with our block of swimming lessons.  

The children all gave it one hundred percent and made some fantastic progress!  

Here is some of what the children did during their lessons.

 

 

 

Circle time!

Each week we meet as a class to participate in 'Circle Time'.  This is part of the week that the children really value and find important.

  

They get the opportunity to celebrate success and talk through any concerns or troubles they may be having.   

With the weather being so nice we took the opportunity to do the lesson outside this week.

This term our focus has been around 

'Learning that we all have problems at different times and sometimes we need help to sort these out.'

  

 So proud of how well the children do supporting each other each week.  

Reading out loud...

We have been sharing the task of reading our shared classroom novel over the last couple of weeks and many of the students have taken the opportunity to have a turn.  

It has been a great way to show how different it is reading aloud and how important 'how' we read is.  

Here are some of the students in action.

When we read aloud we need to think about our audience and allow them to picture what we read, as we read.  
The children think that to begin with reading to punctuation and using expression are the most important things!

Shape fun!

Room 2 mathematicians spent some time this week looking for shapes outdoors.  We found & photographed shapes and then used them to make some resources for the younger students.  

Here they are hard at work and also a few snippets of the work they produced.

  

Special mention to Georgia, Gracie & Olivia, who made a treasure hunt for our New Entrants learners.  I have attached a few photos of the treasure hunt taking place!  

It was a total hit!  

Kaupapa Maori Festival 2019

We are so proud of everyone who particiapted in the 2019 North Otago Kaupapa Maori Festival.

You looked and sounded amazing!  

Te mihi ki nga mahi whakamiharo!

Congratulations on a wonderful performance!

Mid Term sharing assembly.

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to our sharing assembly last week.  

Here are a few pics and a short video showing some of what we shared. 

Some fantastic WANTED posters for characters the children created following a David Walliams, 'World's Worst Children' theme.

Followed by some of the 'World's Worst Children' stories.

     

The children then shared some other work with whanau who were able to stay.

     

   

Keep a look out for more stories soon.

Room Two Runners!

We had some very determined children on Friday last week when we ventured out to Papakaio for our Yearly Cross Country event.

Although the course was much different to what we had trained on, the children all took it in their stride and ran the best they could!  

Here they are ready to race...

And out on the track...